My UNESCO WHS List

This blog puts together some of my passions: travelling, especially to UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS); philately (collecting stamps); deltiology (collecting postcards); and doing research into TUIs (i.e., totally useless information) of things that interest me. Hence, it catalogues UNESCO WHS that I have been to, stamps showing UNESCO WHS that I have, as well as postcards featuring UNESCO WHS that I have received (i.e., stamped and posted) and maxicards and postal cards (both used or unused).

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16 September, 2021

Göbekli Tepe

country. Turkey

year of inscription. 2018

criteria. Cultural

The Göbekli Tepe WHS is located in the province of Sanliurfa. This ruins consists of megalithic monuments which are round-oval and rectangular in shape. It was believed that they were erected by hunter-gather societies in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Age, between 9,600 and 8,200BCE, in Upper Mesopotamia. They were likely to have been used for religious ritualistic purposes, probably related to funerary practices. Images of humans and animals are carved into the pillars. Recent archaeological evidence have revealed remains of buildings that are likely to be been for domestic use.